Hondo, bearing down on a four-figure red number, was flogged with the favorites last night as the Reds and L.A. Seligs combined to drive his deficit up to 940 tenaces.

Tonight, Mr. Aitch will send Cahill to the mound to slow the Tribe — 10 units on the A’s. Also, he doesn’t expect Mr. Wilson to get menaced by the Mariners — 10 units on the Rangers.

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What a brutal week it has been for Osama bin Laden. First he gets killed with a rifle shot to the head and has his body dumped in the North Arabian Sea. Then, worst of all, once he hit bottom he found out that none of the 72 virgins can swim . . . Steeler RB Rashard Mendenhall has issued some sympa thetic tweets lately about bin Laden, including: “We’ll never know what really happened [on 9/11],” and “We’ve only heard one side.” No doubt Rashard feels that rushing to judgment like that is how Hitler and Stalin also ended up with bad names.

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